Creativity on the Decline in American Schoolchildren

Waldorf Education encourages the type of critical thinking too-often being neglected in other schools today. This article tells how education – and creative thinking – have changed in the last few decades.

From the author: “Creativity is nurtured by freedom and stifled by the continuous monitoring, evaluation, adult-direction, and pressure to conform that restrict children’s lives today. In the real world few questions have one right answer, few problems have one right solution; that’s why creativity is crucial to success in the real world. But more and more we are subjecting children to an educational system that assumes one right answer to every question and one correct solution to every problem, a system that punishes children (and their teachers too) for daring to try different routes.”